Best compact cameras under $1,000
Pocketable cameras with serious image quality. Fixed-lens APS-C and 1-inch sensor models that beat phones by a wide margin and rival many interchangeable-lens kits for stills.
16 models match the filter. Default rank: current price as a percentage of MSRP, so the camera at the steepest discount sits at #1. How we compute this.
- 6Lowest now$304$429 MSRP71% MSRP
- 7Lowest now$949$1,299 MSRP73% MSRP
- 9Lowest now$574$699 MSRP82% MSRP
- 11Lowest now$464$549 MSRP85% MSRP
- 12Lowest now$809$899 MSRP90% MSRP
- 13Lowest now$904$799 MSRP113% MSRP
- 14Lowest now$839$699 MSRP120% MSRP
- 15Lowest now$354$279 MSRP127% MSRP
- 16Lowest now$850$529 MSRP161% MSRP
How we built this list
Camera Shelf tracks used prices across the major used-gear sites every night. This list filters the catalog to cameras that match the criteria above, then ranks by deal score, so the camera at the steepest discount from its launch MSRP comes first. Prices and rankings refresh whenever the crawler completes (typically once per day).
See the methodology page for how prices are collected, how seller conditions are normalized, and what the deal score does and doesn't measure.
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